Deborah Torres Patel
Multi-award winning speaker and leading authority on public speaking and presentation advisor with over 26 years of global experience

This program has been independently accredited and certified by CPD

Deborah Torres Patel, Multi-award winning speaker and leading authority on public speaking and presentation advisor with over 26 years of global experience

Multi-award winning speaker and leading authority on public speaking and presentation advisor with over 26 years of global experience

Lectured on public speaking and presentation skills in renowned universities including UCLA (Los Angeles), Los Angeles Unified School District, NUS and NTU (Singapore)

Frequently featured in international media including CNBC, Forbes, Channel NewsAsia, CNN and Time Magazine with clients including Time Warner, AIA, Dell, Disney, Standard Chartered and many other Fortune 500 companies

Deborah Torres Patel, Multi-award winning speaker and leading authority on public speaking and presentation advisor with over 26 years of global experience

Deborah Torres Patel is a multi-award winning speaker and leading authority on public speaking and presentation advisor. For the past 26 years, she has taught hundreds of thousands of people in 74 countries to communicate with clarity, confidence and credibility.

Having been on international radio, TV, Broadway and world-class concert stages with celebrities like Whitney Houston and spoken on global event platforms with leaders like Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Deborah is also a coach to many of the world’s best-selling authors, professional speakers, and senior leaders of Fortune 500 Companies. She has been featured in international media including CNBC, Time, Channel NewsAsia, CNN and Forbes with clients including Time Warner, Disney, HP, Shell, BMW, Morgan Stanley and Standard Chartered Bank. She is co-contributing author to the best selling book ‘88 Essential Secrets for Achieving Greater Success at Work’ published by Marshall Cavendish Business.

Deborah has lectured in leading universities including UCLA (Los Angeles), NUS, SMU, NTU in Singapore and Hong Kong Baptist University. She is also a founding member of Asia Professional Speakers Association.

Testimonials:

"Deborah has been an excellent coach in helping us understand our strengths and areas for improvement in making powerful presentations." - Group Director, HDB Singapore

"Deborah undoubtedly had the experience and bona fides to educate the entire room on the art of presence and presentation. I appreciate that she took the time to hear our needs first and tailor the content to what we needed help with. She made sure that the group came together to support each other and learn as a shared objective." - Associate Director, AIA

This course has been independently certified as conforming to accepted CPD guidelines. On average, this executive program contributes 16 hours towards your CPD.

Program Summary

Your success or failure is directly linked to your ability to communicate. No matter what you want to achieve, you must convince people of your value. How you do that is through your voice and communication. Developing Influential Presentation and Public Speaking program is designed for those who want to have a breakthrough in their presentation or public speaking skills. You will learn time-tested formulas and step-by-step communication systems that work in any business or sales situation. You will also learn to strengthen your voice and to speak with credibility, confidence and impact.

The program has one simple outcome: For you to create and deliver a powerful presentation with energy and confidence that works in any meeting or public speaking situation. In this executive program, you will practice proven presentation systems to communicate with authenticity, polish, confidence and charisma for the rest of your life.

Deborah Torres Patel will lead this 2-day intensive and hands-on executive program. Having performed for millions on radio, TV and Broadway, Deborah has worked on world-class concert stages with legendary celebrities like Sammy Davis Jr., Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Kool & The Gang.

Today, she is voice teacher and presentation coach to many of the world’s best-selling authors, professional speakers, and senior leaders of Fortune 500 Companies. Deborah has taught hundreds of thousands of people in 68 countries to speak and communicate with confidence, power and authenticity. She is regularly featured in major international media and is a co-contributing author to the bestselling book 88 Essential Secrets for Achieving Greater Success at Work published by Marshall Cavendish Business.

Programs, dates and locations are subject to change. In accordance with Clariden Global policy, we do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, age, national or disability in admission to our programs.

Introduction

How do you develop influential presentation and public speaking skills? Your success depends upon your ability to lead and influence the actions of others.Developing Influential Presentation and Public Speaking for Directors and Senior Management program will show you how to optimize your leadership communication in order to lead and manage people with impact, as well as how to use your voice to inspire, influence and motivate others to deliver peak performance. You will learn how to speak effortlessly and lead from the heart.

This executive program’s accelerated-learning approach teaches you time tested templates, formulas and systems to guarantee that you will have the ability to step up, speak up and stand out as a leader. In this highly engaging and interactive program, you will learn and practice proven presentation systems to communicate with authenticity, polish, confidence and charisma.

Your communication skills will make or break your career. In this program, you will be challenged to step out of your comfort zone which is where your full self-expression and power as an extraordinary communicator lives. The skills you learn in this program will be with you forever and you will be able to use them daily in both your personal and professional life.

During the program, you will work on a business presentation that you will actually deliver to an internal or external audience. The program is designed to accelerate learning so that as much time as possible is invested DOING actual presentations and BEING a powerful presenter so you can receive an immediate return on investment from the moment you complete the training.

Throughout the program, you will receive empowering feedback and insights from Deborah Patel and fellow participants, and leave with priceless communication systems that will support you in achieving success in any area of your life.

You will refine your leadership presence, presentation, and public speaking skills and dramatically increase your confidence and effectiveness by leveraging the power of being an extraordinary communicator in any presentation environment and in front of any size audience.

If you want to catapult your career, become more visible, look and sound like an expert, and lead, teach or inspire others, you must attend this program.

What You Can Expect

In this intensive two-day executive program, you will learn & practice time-tested presentation and public speaking step-by-step systems that include how to:

Establish an immediate connection with anyone

Find out the five critical components to cover in the opening minutes of your meeting or presentation

Present your credibility and influence people in a short conversation

Use down-to-earth language that compels people to listen and that speaks to what matt ers most to your clients and how they will benefit

Communicate verbally and non-verbally with influence and impact

Generate and sustain engaging meeting participation at any time

Share information in a way that people can remember it

Effectively structure your data & position your case studies

Prepare to face a skeptical audience

Handle challenging questions

Achieve buy-in without selling

Deliver the end of your presentation or call to action clearly to make it easy for people to take the next steps with you

Effectively apply what you learn together to any length presentation or any size meeting or public speaking setting

By the end of the 2-day program, you will learn to deliver your own confident, powerful presentation with impact that will generate consistent results. You will leave the training fully-prepared and confident for your next presentation or public speaking opportunity.

Who Will Benefit Most

This executive program is designed for anyone who wants to have a breakthrough in your presentation or public speaking skills, including but not limited to:

Executives who have growing responsibilities in their organization and are seeking to enhance their communication skills as a catalyst to drive change.

High potential leaders who want to advance their careers to the next level and to learn how to leverage the enormous power of speaking platforms.

Leaders who already are, or want to be, highly visible as messengers or spokespeople for a business, organization or a cause.

Program Outline

DAY 1 - MORNING

Making a Fantastic First Impression in your Quick Introduction

Each participant introduces themselves in front of the group

Executive Presence, Leadership Stature & Stance

Keys to a Powerful Voice

3 V’s of Congruency & Credibility

Integrating Gestures and Body Language to get your message across

Establish an immediate connection with anyone

Communicate verbally and non-verbally with influence and impact

Putting it all together with ‘on your feet practice’

DAY 1 - AFTERNOON

Timeless Presentation Template

Critical components to cover in the opening minutes of your meeting or presentation

How to present your credibility and influence people in a short conversation

Use down-to-earth language that compels people to listen and that speaks to what matters most to them

Generate and sustain engaging meeting participation

Presenting and Speaking so people can remember, absorb and be motivated to take action

Effectively structure your data and position your case studies

How to achieve buy-in without selling

Deliver the end of your presentation clearly to make it easy for people to take the next steps with you

Putting it all together with ‘on your feet practice’

DAY 2 – MORNING

Powerful Voice & Communication

Quick warm ups for Speaking and Presentation

Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking and Presentation Anxiety

Simple presentation structure for being called upon to speak spontaneously

What to prepare to face a skeptical audience

Handle challenging questions

DAY 2 - AFTERNOON

Final Presentations & Feedback

Final presentations, feedback and coaching

How to effectively apply what you learned to any size audience and in any type of communication

How to consistently deliver extraordinary results

Participants get on stage one by one to deliver closing comments

Conclusion - the way forward

Awarding certificates

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